Revelation, 6 May 1833 [D&C
93]

and inasmuch as you keep my sayings
you shall not be confounded in this world nor in the world to come

and verely I say unto you that it is
my will that ye should hasten to
translate

To produce a new text through a revelatory, rather than scholarly, process, by the “gift and power of God.” In the Book of Mormon, the ancient prophet Mosiah translated records into his own language using “interpreters,” or “two stones which was fastened ...

my
Scriptures and to obtain a knowledg of history and of
Countries and of Kingdoms and of laws, of
God &
man and all these for the salvation of Zion Amen
[p. [6]]

and inasmuch as you keep my sayings
you shall not be confounded in this world nor in the world to come
Am

and verely I say unto you that it is
my will that ye should hasten to
translate

To produce a new text through a revelatory, rather than scholarly, process, by the “gift and power of God.” In the Book of Mormon, the ancient prophet Mosiah translated records into his own language using “interpreters,” or “two stones which was fastened ...

Many of the early revelations focused
on church government or other matters of temporal concern, and this one
includes admonition to specific leaders to better oversee their families. But
most of this revelation is distinctly theological in nature. The circumstances
surrounding the revelation are not certain, although this text possibly
illuminated doctrinal issues raised in recent sessions of
Kirtland

Located ten miles south of Lake Erie. Settled by 1811. Organized by 1818. Population in 1830 about 55 Latter-day Saints and 1,000 others; in 1838 about 2,000 Saints and 1,200 others; in 1839 about 100 Saints and 1,500 others. Mormon missionaries visited township...

,
Ohio’s school of the prophets. It also may have been prompted by
JS’s revision of the New Testament, which was
completed in February 1833. Regardless, this
revelation was of great importance to the early church.

transcribed this text in mid-1833 into Revelation Book 2, where it appears
without specific identification.
John
Whitmer

27 Aug. 1802–11 July 1878. Farmer, stock raiser, newspaper editor. Born in Pennsylvania. Son of Peter Whitmer Sr. and Mary Musselman. Member of German Reformed Church, Fayette, Seneca Co., New York. Baptized by Oliver Cowdery, June 1829, most likely in Seneca...

Located ten miles south of Lake Erie. Settled by 1811. Organized by 1818. Population in 1830 about 55 Latter-day Saints and 1,000 others; in 1838 about 2,000 Saints and 1,200 others; in 1839 about 100 Saints and 1,500 others. Mormon missionaries visited township...